Idris al-Ma'mun

Abu al - Ula I. Idris al - Ma'mun (Arabic أبو العلا إدريس المأمون, DMG Abū l - ʿ Ula Idris al - Ma ʾ mun, † 1232) was the eighth Caliph Almohad and reigned from 1227 to 1232 on the Maghreb and al -Andalus.

Idris I, was a grandson of Abu Yaqub Yusuf I. He came in 1227 in the Iberian Peninsula by an uprising against the rule of his brother Abdallah al - Adil ( 1224-1227 ) to power. Also he had won in 1224 by an uprising to power. With 12,000 Castilian mercenaries Idris also landed in Morocco to rush there, his nephew, al - Adils son Yahya.

Due to its strong roots in the culture of al -Andalus al - Ma'mun Idris I. had little understanding of the Almohad institutions that had previously ensured the relative stability of the empire. So the council of 10 chiefs and 40 tribal delegates were under him initially abolished, and omitted the mention of the Mahdi Ibn Tumart in the administrative records and on coins. In 1228 he renounced the Almohad doctrine and cursed the Mahdi. Although Idris I. these measures in 1230 took back again, the loyalty of his subjects against the dynasty was still badly shaken.

So it was in 1229 to refuse the Hafsids in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia), who held on to the Almohad doctrine. Also broke after Idris ' seizure of power in al -Andalus from the revolt of Ibn Hud, which ultimately led to the collapse of Almohad rule. With the advance of the Moroccan Marinids since 1230, the Almohads were threatened in their heartland of Morocco.

A few years after Idris ' death, the Almohads had lost control of the south of the Iberian Peninsula at the mentioned Ibn Hud, those. Above Ifriqiya at the Hafsids and the present territory of Algeria to the Abdalwadiden Successor of Idris I. al - Ma'mun was Abd al - Wahid II ar -Rashid ( 1232-1242 ).